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Monthly Archives: March 2007

Kalita

Spotted this girl on flickr.com’s random pic feature. Those eyes!
 

My mother’s favorite song « Jahsonic

Jahsonic alerted me to the  existance of Steven Hall aka Buddhist Army (what a name!).
Jahsonic rates his music and so do I.  Listen to Volleyball on his Myspace profile for a good intro.
Link to My mother’s favorite song ¬´ Jahsonic
Also see Jahsonic’s post on Don‚Äôt let another man kiss you .

Speak the Hungarian Rapper

Yeeeee, c’mon…one of the most hilarious videos I have seen in years.
It is NOT a joke. Borat eat your heart out…

Link to YouTube - Speak the Hungarian Rapper

Self-congratulation

My friend D piped up on MSN this morning to vent fury after one of his colleagues took down one of their company’s carriers. The incompetent who took it down stayed late to fix his own cock-up, then noted his heroic effort in his shift report thereby earning himself a cash bonus and a congratulatory call [...]

links for 2007-03-18

Precautionary principle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The precautionary principle is a moral and political principle which states that if an action or policy might cause severe or irreversible harm to the public, in the absence of a scientific consensus that harm would not ensue, the burden of proof falls on
(tags: environment science sustainability principles laws [...]

Fear, Complexity, Environmental Management in the 21st Century by Michael Crichton

In a brilliant lecture by Michael Crichton called “Fear, Complexity, Environmental Management in the 21st Century” we learn about the perils of doomsaying and fear mongering.
The lecture cover everything from the ice age that never happened to the population bomb that never happened to Y2K chaos hat never happend to the 150 year progression [...]

The Guatemala City Abyss

From Bldblog:
“After rumbling for weeks,” we read, “part of a poor Guatemala City neighborhood plummeted some 30 stories into the Earth on Friday.” The gigantic sinkhole into which those homes plummeted is referred to as “the Guatemala City abyss.”

Heckler and Koch 416 Carbine

“Delta Force worked with a gun maker to come up with a better weapon.
The 416 is now considered in many circles to be the best carbine in the
world, but the regular Army is sticking with the M4 and M16.” READ ON

Martin Parr - Photographer

From Wikipedia:

Martin Parr (born 1952) is a British documentary photographer and photojournalist. His photographic projects take a critical look at modern society, specifically consumerism, foreign travel and tourism, motoring, family and relationships, and food.
Parr is known for his lurid, and sometimes shocking, use of colour in photography. His satirical, witty approach to documentary photography leaves [...]

300 - Iranian outrage and the ‘Mania for Iconoclasm’

Predictably Iranians are reportedly ‘outraged’ by the new action film “300“.
From The Guardian:
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - The hit American movie “300” h as angered Iranians who say the Greeks-vs-Persians action flick insults their ancient culture and provokes animosity against Iran.
“Hollywood declares war on Iranians,” blared a headline in Tuesday’s edition of the independent Ayende-No [...]